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• Many Android phones to get satellite connectivity

  05-01-2023 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  When there is no mobile coverage, phones will be able to send emergency texts via satellite.
  
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• The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun

  05-01-2023 23:42
  A European Union ruling against Meta marks the beginning of the end of targeted ads.
  
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• Can robot assistants transform our care system? A solution out of a science-fiction blockbuster

  05-01-2023 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A robot could be brought into British care homes this year to help solve the staffing crisis.
  
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• 'Flying' boat will banish seasickness and could one day carry passengers across the English Channel

  05-01-2023 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The all-electric Candela P-12 uses hydrofoils that lift it above the waves leading to a smooth journey without rocking.
  
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• $2,000 toaster oven that cooks a pizza in 10 MINUTES is showcased at CES 

  05-01-2023 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Brava Glass is the latest smart toaster oven to hit CES in Las Vegas. The company proudly announced the iPhone app-controlled innovation features an all-glass front for $2,000.
  
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• Sierra Madre: Fighting to save what's left of a vital rainforest

  05-01-2023 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Around 90% of the Sierra Madre, which protects the Philippines from the worst of climate change, is gone.
  
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• US approves world’s first vaccine for declining honey bees

  05-01-2023 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  The vaccine targets a disease known to weaken colonies by attacking bee larvae.
  
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• James Webb spots galaxies similar to our Milky Way

  05-01-2023 20:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  James Webb spotted six galaxies that formed eight to 11 billion years ago - 25% the current age of the 13.7-billion-year-old universe. And these galaxies have features similar to our Milky Way.
  
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• Earth could lose up to 80% of its glaciers by 2100 thanks to climate change,study predicts 

  05-01-2023 20:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have projected the ice loss the planet could face in different emissions scenarios. This loss could cause glacier hazards like avalanches and floods.
  
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• The Best Movies You Missed in 2022—and Where to Watch Them

  05-01-2023 19:46
  From Iran's reigning master of cinema to wolf-eating witches, these are the best films you didn't see last year.
  
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• Meet the WALL-E lookalike robot that disinfects surfaces, opens doors and delivers pills to patients

  05-01-2023 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Aeolus Robotics claim their android, named 'Aeo'. can act as a security guard, a hospital cleaner and even take over the job of staff in care homes.
  
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• Experts Question: What If Elderly Transhuman Billionaires Actually Become Immortal?

  05-01-2023 19:17 via technocracy.news
  Don’t worry, it won’t actually happen, but billionaire Technocrats might well figure out how to live an extra dozen years or so. Those who understand the crackpot goals of Transhumanists are starting to take them seriously enough to ask some penetrating questions. What IF? If Jeff Bezos were to rise to godhood, he might well ditch Christmas and all other holidays for Prime Day. All hail lord Bezos. ⁃ TN EditorLet’s be clear: modern science has done a lot of incredible thi
  
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• “Population Bomb” Paul Ehrlich Blathers On About The “End Of Civilization”

  05-01-2023 18:50 via technocracy.news
  Mass extinction events over hundreds of millions of years are claimed to have been caused by natural events. Of course there is zero proof of this). Technocrats claim that today’s mass extinction will instead be caused by man. Not one of Ehrlich’s 1968 predictions has materialized but he has never changed his rhetoric, despite the fact that we are headed straight into a demographic winter.
  As you listen to 60 Minutes pimp for Ehrlich’s civilization extinction theory, remember t
  
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• Shock Study: Social Media Use CHANGES The BRAINS Of Teenagers

  05-01-2023 18:17 via technocracy.news
  Thank you, Technocrats. You have disrupted the lives of tens of hundreds of millions of youth, if not an entire generation. One of the most damaging social media platform on the planet is China’s TikTok app, which is not surprising coming from the world’s first Technate. Remember, Technocracy is the “science of social engineering”. But don’t think it stops there!
  Read yesterday’s post by Joe Allen: Unprecedented, Unholy, Unseen: AI Chatbots Are Colonizing Our
  
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• Twitter: Millions of users' email addresses 'stolen' in data hack

  05-01-2023 18:14 via bbc.co.uk
  Reports suggest more than 200 million sets of data were taken and are being given away on an online forum.
  
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• CES 2023: Sony unveils controller for disabled gamers

  05-01-2023 18:11 via bbc.co.uk
  The Project Leonardo controller is announced five years after Microsoft released its accessible gamepad.
  
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• Bizarre dinosaur-bird hybrid soared over China 120 million years ago

  05-01-2023 17:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Palaeontologists discovered the body print fossil, named Cratonavis zhui, during excavationsin northern China, a region where prints of feathered dinosaurs and early birds have also been unearthed.
  
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• WhatsApp to enable messaging in internet blackouts

  05-01-2023 17:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Instant-messaging service WhatsApp is letting users connect via proxy servers so they can stay online.
  
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• USDA approves first ever vaccine for HONEYBEES

  05-01-2023 17:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US has greenlighted the first vaccine for honeybees in an effort to save the insects from a spore-forming bacteria that was previously contained by burning the colony and hive.
  
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• WhatsApp to let users connect to the app via proxy servers 

  05-01-2023 17:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From today, WhatsApp users globally can head to the app's settings to enter the name of a proxy server and use it to access the internet.
  
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• WhatsApp Launches Proxy Tool to Fight Internet Censorship

  05-01-2023 16:59
  Amid internet shutdowns in Iran, the encrypted messaging app is introducing proxy connections that can help people get online.
  
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• Amazon to axe 18,000 jobs as it cuts costs

  05-01-2023 15:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Most of the job losses will come from human resources and retail including its shops.
  
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• Retro Pod app transforms your iPhone into an iPod - including the classic scroll wheel

  05-01-2023 14:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While most people are opting for a new, sleek iPhone, some are now trying to transform their phones to look like the iPod Classic.
  
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• CES 2023: Bizarre $500 'smartwatch' doesn't have a clock

  05-01-2023 13:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nowatch, described as an 'awareable' rather than a wearable, is the creation of a company of the same name based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  
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• UK weather: 2022 was warmest year ever, Met Office confirms

  05-01-2023 13:51 via bbc.co.uk
  The average annual temperature last year was more than 10C for the first time, the Met Office says.
  
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• Medieval murder victim was killed by multiple sword blows to the head 700 years ago, study finds 

  05-01-2023 13:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Insubria analysed the 700-year-old skeletal remains of a young man to find that he had been struck four times with a sword, leading to his demise.
  
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• Northern Lights could be visible as far south as Edinburgh tonight

  05-01-2023 13:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tonight, lucky skywatchers in Britain might just have a chance of spotting the aurora borealis, as it creeps as far south as Edinburgh in Scotland.
  
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• Stephen Hawking's wheelchair and 1996 PhD thesis will go on display outside of London

  05-01-2023 13:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of Stephen Hawking's belongings, including a copy of his 1996 PhD thesis and specially-adapted spectacles which helped him to communicate, make up part of the exhibition.
  
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• Nature’s Soundtrack Reveals the Secrets of Degradation

  05-01-2023 13:00
  Researchers are applying digital listening technology to the natural world. It turns out it has quite a lot to say to us—and not all of it sounds good.
  
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• How an Iraqi Instagram Influencer Became a People Smuggler

  05-01-2023 13:00
  Abdulrahman Khalid was forced to flee his country because of his outspoken atheism. Now, he’s helping others in the same position—for profit.
  
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• Digital Traders Want to Go Fish

  05-01-2023 13:00
  A network of trading platforms is restructuring the seafood industry and tackling waste.
  
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• Climate Enforcers Need Hard Evidence. Friederike Otto Has It

  05-01-2023 13:00
  World Weather Attribution ties disasters and extreme conditions to climate change—providing crucial leverage for legal and policy battles.
  
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• CES 2023: Arnold Schwarzenegger takes to the stage for BMW keynote

  05-01-2023 11:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Schwarzenegger appeared during the German automobile firm's keynote address at CES 2023 in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
  
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• Green farming schemes to be paid more taxpayers' money

  05-01-2023 11:48 via bbc.co.uk
  The amount of money paid to farmers in England for environmental work will rise, the government says.
  
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• First EVER orbital mission from UK soil could take place next week

  05-01-2023 11:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Virgin Orbit has selected Monday, January 9 as a potential lift-off date from Spaceport Cornwall - more than 70 years after the British Space Programme was established in 1952.
  
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• Rate of disruptive tech and science discoveries has slowed over the decades, claims study

  05-01-2023 10:30 via go.theregister.com
  Makes the repetitive strain injury you got from hours of pipetting all worth it, hey lab scientists? Far from an era of accelerating innovation and disruption, our current times manifest evidence of a slowing of discoveries and developments that change our thinking.…
  
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• Withings unveils a smart device that you stick in your toilet and WEE on to monitor your health

  05-01-2023 10:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Withings, known for its smartwatches, has branched out with its latest product, dubbed the U-Scan, which was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week.
  
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• Energy crisis: MPs call for 'war effort' on insulation

  05-01-2023 08:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Report says opportunities were missed last summer to improve the energy efficiency of homes and save money on gas.
  
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• Cave art decoded... cryptic messages from our deep past told Ice Age hunters when pray was mating

  05-01-2023 01:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The lines and dots which decorate some of our most famous cave paintings have finally been deciphered as the world's earliest calendar, at over 20,000 years old.
  
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